My small review
So I’ve been playing PTS for a few days and TBH I don‘t know what to think. Overall idea is good but there are serious problems which for me makes this mode a little bit boring. Especially after some time. I’ll focus here mostly on things that I find negative but I’ll try to start with positive:
- It’s great that I can navigate through menu when waiting in lobby.
- The commentator is good with one exception (below).
- I like that there are unique prizes tied to tournaments and there different levels you can get.
- Indicator that shows skill level is very neat idea especially with the change that shows overall reputation
The Bad:
- I don’t understand the percent of points I’m gaining and loosing after the fight. The games said I was fighting with equal players and after loosing I’ve got something like -30% once and -8% other time. And much less for winning. I’m pretty sure it’s intended but it’s annoying as hell.
- The commentator idea is good but I think it’s too childish. When you loose you’ll get all kinds of comments that normally I’d found in playground between bragging children. And it’s really weird that you’ve decided to put emphasis on someone’s lost game. This is tournament that already gives much more emotions then normal mode and what you basically do is dishearten further gameplay instead of encourage to be better and play more. BTW if you’ll going to add option to turn it of make it in a way that there are more stages to it. I mean I don’t mind having it before fight and when it’s over saying who won but I’d like to turn those bragging comments off.
- There were too many cases when all we’ve got was one pool so whatever happened at qualifiers we all got to playoffs.
- I’m really afraid that there won’t be enough people to play this. I know those are tests but still waiting outside of prime ours was very long.
- This is only 1v1 and it still takes very long time to get anything. Waiting between matches is boring as hell. On PC I can at least alt-tab and do something else in between. But on the consoles?
- Like many thought, game mode like this shows how much more FH needs in terms of balance. All we’ll get is festival of cheese/spammable/safe moves. I mean I know this is the pr0/elite way of playing games but still...boring as hell and not fair if you’re don’t want to play something just because someone can’t properly balance game.
- Environments are even more annoying here then everywhere else. Funny fact - even though it’s ranked people still tend to go away from everything that can kill them and just move to the normal, safer place. Of course if you’re not one of the CC spammable class that is. Because if you’re for example Warlord all you do is spam GB and try to do ledge kill.
- I’ve already met too many turtling players. I really wonder if it will be really addressed in the future because classes like Conq or LB are just designed to be passive. Or Shinobi which find annoying because people tends to dodge outside of fight waiting for kick or caught you when you try close the gap. BTW I love playing against Conq who have only one move: do anything that leads to SB, spam until something prevent it, get back, repeat.
- I don’t know if I’m able to describe this properly...Sometimes there too many screens with some sort of confirmation. I think most notable is transition between qualifiers and playoffs where you have to press esc three times when there should be none. And best part is that those screens didn’t differ too much...
- I’m not sure I like that the ornament is given randomly. In ideal scenario there would be many players to win against in order to get it. So it will be quite annoying if I want ornament for specific class and all I get are different ones. Look at how much time consuming tournaments are. I think it would be better to get some crate from where you could choose ornament you’re interested in and let all other prizes be random. After all you’ve won!
Bugs:
- Once I started fight against some Warden. But after the map loaded what I saw was...Shinobi...bot. It looked like both me and Warden have got their bots because Warden manage to type something on chat. After few seconds the game was disconnected with message that connection was lost. Of course we both got lost.
- There was one time when after we did all the fights in qualifiers the game has stuck at this moment. No message, no time for next stage, no nothing. I didn’t know what has going on so I’ve quit.
- Things like colors and symbols are displayed in weird place in terms of sorting. It’s already inconvenient to navigate through all the stuff you can use to customize your look. But now it’s even harder. For example I’ve unlocked some color and I couldn’t find it. I thought it would be at the bottom...but it wasn’t. It was somewhere in the middle of the unlocked list.
I think we won’t see anything more then 1v1. And even if we will this will be either because Ubi did some miracle and more people would come and play or someone at Ubi will have very narrow minded point of view (i.e. knows better). It’s because there are not enough people to play in all the modes and it’s already hard to find games in some regions.
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